Turtles are fascinating creatures because they can live as long as humans, sometimes even longer. Their slow-moving ...

Stinkpot Turtle, AKA Common Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) sitting next to a pond. These pond turtles can release a stinky odor from musk glands as a way to discourage predators from attacking ...

A large-scale 30-year rewilding project is under way at Castle Howard, which could see beavers reintroduced. Stuart Minting ...

aquatic habitats like ponds, marshes, and wetlands. When they aren’t searching for prey, they spend much of their time basking on logs and rocks. Of all snapping turtle species, the common snapping ...

River otters (lontra canadensis) live near lakes, ponds, streams and rivers throughout ... crayfish, clams, turtles, frogs, birds’ eggs, and even muskrats. They will also eat aquatic plants ...

In the Northeast, there are three native turtle species that have hinged shells: the Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) ...

A jellyfish, found in a private farm pond in Guthrie County ... is standing along the East Nishnabotna River with a spiny softshell turtle. He investigated a catastrophic fertilizer spill in ...

Some people pull over to help a turtle cross a road (remember to do so safely and to help it to the side it was plodding toward). It takes minutes. A lot of conservation work is common sense ...

The company came to be through the help of Henry W. Meyer, a wealthy Glendale resident who manufactured Ivanhoe brand chewing ...

Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a ...

Hiking strenuously since the early 1970s, I’m always on the lookout for new paths and reworked trails — and while I hiked the ...